Making something that goes boom is easy. Making something that can contain a boom and channel the boom into only one direction is difficult. Quality metallurgy and precision metal work is actually difficult. Making a tube and a projectile that fit each other nicely is very hard to do at scale.
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Mastengwe@sh.itjust.works 21 hours agoThen the gun would have been invented in 200 BC. 🤣
bestboyfriendintheworld@sh.itjust.works 18 hours ago
tiredofsametab@fedia.io 18 hours ago
No, but rockets were a thing
BlueEther@no.lastname.nz 21 hours ago
no, you might have a rocket propelled grenade though
Mastengwe@sh.itjust.works 20 hours ago
True!